7 thoughts on “Attention, MPR’s “Poligraph””

1. How do I find those neighborhoods? Is there an app for that?

2. That is breathtaking–this is a “Ten Pinocchio” Exhibit A for how I’ve believed that Obama makes Clinton look like Lincoln in the honesty department–and that since 2009.

3. Those neighborhoods are in all 57 states so it may take a while.

4. I think what he said is probably factually correct in this sense: there are probably some neighborhoods (actually the small town I grew up in would probably qualify) that have gun stores but don’t have libraries or stores that sell books or fresh vegetables. That’s a situation driven by economics: book stores have been taking an economic beating for a long while* and fresh produce has a high spoilage factor and if the local market doesn’t sustain them, they won’t be there for long or in some cases ever.

   I don’t know what if anything could reverse either trend although there was an episode of King of the Hill where Peggy opened up a book store that was failing miserably until she allowed Dale Gribble to sell guns or rather “give one away with the purchase of a book.”

5. Oh my bad, the deal was you had to buy a book if you wanted to buy a gun. You can read a summary here if you haven’t seen it: http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/Peggy%27s_World_of_Books

6. If guns are indeed easier to buy than books or fruit, then let’s regulate guns like the other two. We need gun libraries where you can check out a new edition, and guns should be qualified purchases for the Women and Infant Children program.

7. Just for kicks, I looked up supermarkets in Compton CA and Detroit MI. More or less, if you could walk a mile, you could get fresh produce. I suspect the same applies all over the country, and you can also get reading material at those same supermarkets. Some of it not that good–romance novels and all–but reading material nonetheless.

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